I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
“The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.”
“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”